he's run d.c.'s finances the past 13 years. gandhi is 72 and says it's finally came to retire. his last day will be june 1st. mayor vincent gray praised him today saying he helped the district achieve extraordinary financial turnaround. the white house calls it a terror attack. today a suicide bombing outside the u.s. embassy in ankara, turkey. that explosion ripped a door off the embassy, threw debris all over the street. turkey's prime minister says this is the work of a domestic militant group. a changing of the guard of sorts at the state department. this was hillary clinton's last day as secretary of state. hundreds of her colleagues stood in the hallways as she gave her good-bye speech. president obama says he thinks clinton will go down as one of the finest secretaries of state ever. former senator john kerry took over the post after taking the oath of office in a private ceremony.

the jury which found a former culpeper police officer guilty of manslaughter recommended a sentence today and he's looking at spending the next three years behind bars. >> reporter: i'm peggy fox in culpeper where a jury decided that a former police officer will spend the next 36 months behind bars. the jury did not find harmon- wright acted with malice when he shot and killed patricia cook who was trespassing sitting in her jeep in a school parking lot. he says she clamped her windows shut on his fingers and started driving away when he opened fire. >> he still feels he did the job he was hired to do and there was nothing else he could have done. so he feels victimized. >> reporter: the jury found harmon-wright guilty of manslaughter and two lesser counts. the judge can run the sentences concurrently or consecutively. >> this is a sad day. a victim lost her life. a former police officer lost his career and liberty for a

period of time. hopefully the juncture that we are at, the town and community of culpeper can begin the healing process. >> reporter: peggy fox, wusa9. protesters, some dressed in black, delivered a message today at the nra's headquarters in fairfax. they say gun violence must be stopped. the protesters are members of the new reston herndon community against gun violence. their movement started after the newtown massacre. the demonstrators say they strongly support the second amendment and say the possession of guns is well within constitutional limits. solid economic news send the bulls running on wall street. strong auto sales and optimism about the jobs picture sent the dow above 14,000. this is the first time in more than six years. the economy also added 157,000 jobs last month. even so unemployment inches up to 7.9%.

prince george's county could use some of that wall street magic. county leaders are planning foyer budget for 2014 and forecasting a -- planning for their budget for 2014 and forecasting a shortfall. they say they are looking for ways to save and everything now is on the table. is the national football league get doing soft? roger goodell does not think so. the nfl commissioner took the podium in new orleans today and talked about player safety. he thinks the game can still keep its tough persona despite some of the new rules which changes the way players are hit. >> dial anything that's going to help us make -- i'll do anything that's going to help us make the game safer and better. i'll be happy to engage in the dialogue in a meeting where we can talk about the pluses and minuses and how we make the game safe. >> goodell says he'll suspend repeat offenders if he has to to get the message across. meantime our blitz and glitz team is also down in the

big easy. kristin fisher is live in the superdome checking out the things we usually do not get to see. >> reporter: this sunday when you're watching the super bowl from the comfort of your own home, remember this. it took the cbs sports team three years of planning to pull this off and they are still working right now inside the superdome. so earlier today i had a chance to kind of go behind the scenes to see what it takes to pull off and broadcast one of the biggest live sport events in the toward. in the shadows of the superdome sits a multimillion dollars trailer park. >> very fancy very expensive trailer park. >> reporter: steve carritick is the senior producer of cbs sports and today he's giving me a tour of the compound. trailer after trailer of editing rooms, taping, graphics. >> over 40 videotape machines

just for the game alone. >> reporter: sneaking through the entire compound are thousands of wires and cables. it's crazy to think that on game day every one of them has to be connected to the right thing. >> i always used to joke like what would happen if you actually pulled one of them out? >> reporter: this is the place to be on game day. the producer sits here. the director sit right here. this is where all the critical decisions are made during the super bowl. >> anything and everything can happen. you try to plan as best you can, but the game is the game. you have to react to what happens. >> reporter: quick reaction time is a by-product of good planning. >> the preparations in general for cbs literally began probably three years ago after our last super bowl in miami. >> reporter: their crews have been coming here over the last year on and off. now they're 1,000 strong counting down to kickoff. >> of course, you're nervous. it's the biggest sporting event in the world, but nothing is different about this game, four

quarters, 15 minutes, 11 guys on each side of the ball. we've been prepping for this basically our whole lives and this whole season. >> reporter: cbs sports team is adding a very cool new feature just in time for the super bowl called the hyper zoom. it's a camera with a very powerful zoom that lets you zoom in. i saw it in action. you can see every individual blade of grass. they think it could be a crucial piece of technology during a very critical or controversial play. so that's something to really watch out for if you're watching from home. i just got to say there was a little part of me that did want to just pull one of those cables and see what would happen. i'd probably lose my press credential if i did that. >> i'm glad you held off. would have been a lot more interesting if you did it during the game. don't do it now. >> don't give her any ideas. >> reporter: right. >> we've got extended blitz and

glitz coverage at 7:00 when we will introduce you to a trumpet playing troubadour who happens to be the cultural ambassador of louisiana. i will see you then. a nickel for your thoughts or your grocery bag. so how is that tax working in montgomery county anyway? find out. >> wind is howling, wind chills very low, three chances of snow the next three days. no advisory, but if you're headed out, hat, gloves. 26 mile-per-hour wind gusts downtown and a 29 mile-per-hour wind gusts and we'll talk about why tomorrow is a yellow alert. >> up next a contraception compromise, what the

a compromise on contraception from the obama administration today. the department of health and human services announced it will let certain nonprofits like hospitals and schools say no, but they have to have insurance companies comply. if women are in, we're out.

that's the threat from 17% of marines surveyed last summer. it jumped to 22% for women assigned involuntarily to the jobs. the men said if women are allowed to serve in combat, they would likely leave. those numbers were given to leon panetta before he made the decision to allow women into combat last week. montgomery county's bag tax isn't having the results officials hoped for. county data shows the bag tax is on pace to exceed $2 million in revenue after one year, twice what they anticipated. the idea behind the tax is to discourage the use of disposable bags, not to be a revenue booster, but officials aren't sure how many bags were used before the tax started. what's old is new again at the american legion post on capitol hill. local volunteer contractors showed off renovations today to the building on d street southeast. maryland-based clark construction donated the time, labor and materials all designed to make the post more handicap accessible and be

better equipped to serve local and visiting veterans. a local professor gets a pretty big recognition from the president. we'll tell you why coming up. >> wall street reaches a milestone on its way back from the great recession, but is the market overheated? anthony mason will look

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an olney development that's been on hold for years now is back on track tonight. a new shopping center is being built separated by a breezeway and a salon and three other businesses on the sight in olney. more than 150 students went to howard university today for free dental care, all part of give kids a smile day, some great pictures. about 35 practicing dentists there with howard and the district of columbia dental seat to make sure disadvantaged children -- society to make sure disadvantaged children get oral care that sometimes gets skipped. >> we are working together in a partnership to kind of turn the

page on oral health disparities and if it were not for this collaboration, many children would have oral health needs unmet. >> give kids a smile day, not just happening here. tens of thousands of youngsters across the nation got free dental care today by dentists like these. university of maryland physics professor jim gates is part of a rare group. he's a guy who not only understands the most arcade scientists, but he can explain them to the rest of us. bruce leshan reports today that won him a national medal of science at the white house. >> reporter: imagine you had a yardstick. if you cut it into 10 equal pieces -- >> reporter: one of jim gates' most popular videos, an explanation of string theory brings together the universe from the smallest particles to the biggest galaxies in 30 seconds. >> photon. >> reporter: for the bbc he explains super symmetry which

brings together matter and force. >> the beauty and wonder of fundamental physics. >> reporter: his research and teaching brought him to the white house where the president gave the university of maryland professor one of this year's 12 national medals of science. >> this is like winning the world series and the lottery and having a birthday party and christmas all at the same time. >> reporter: professor gates' dad was in the army. he went to schools all over the country. he was in orlando in high school when word came he had been accepted to one of the country's top science schools. >> he came home and saw his father standing on the porch with a big smile on his face and that's how jim knew he had gotten into m.i.t. >> instead of i'm going to disney world, i'm going to m.i.t. was my dream. >> reporter: he has now spent 40 years trying to invest his students with the same enthusiasm. >> if we're going to make it as

a country, we've got to invest in our young people. >> gates is also convinced that global warming is science's next huge challenge and he says if scientists fail to find a way to control it, the earth will be a less friendly place for the next generation. >> what a career there. >> unbelievable and to be able to explain complex stuff like that in a nice easy way. >> you do this every night. >> we try. we have three little disturbances coming our way in the next 72 hours, a little snow possible with each one, but no big snows. the snowbirds are dying. let's start with live look outside. high temperature 36 that occurred at 5:00 this morning. temps have done nothing but fall throughout the day. it's our live michael and son weather cam, looking at the kennedy center. 26 the temperature at national, dew point 1 above, relative humidity 34%, indoors about 60%. winds still brisk at 16,

pressure rising at 30.29 inches of mercury. groundhog day tomorrow, hi, phil, how are you? clouds will roll into pennsylvania, but i think he will see his shadow. we should use a hedgehog because that's what they originally used for this weather pagan holiday because they ate insects and if winter if -- if insects were out, weren't was pretty much over. chances are he'll say six more weeks of winter tomorrow morning. we shall say. we've hardly had winter at all. i'll have a blog tomorrow morning about the history of groundhog day at www.wusa9.com. today's blog i'm talking about snowless januaries. could that lead to snowy february. 25 in college park, 24 at

andrews and waldorf. let's factor in the wind, 9 in gaithersburg, 6 in frederick, 8 in martinsburg, feels like 12 in leesburg and 14 downtown. we jump the divide, this is always fun. makes us feel rm. it feels like 11 below in oakland, but a very good weekend to go skiing anywhere in the east and a little more snow will be coming in the next 72 hours. this is our next system, a little snow pushing through minnesota back into iowa. it will race southeastward similar track through the ohio valley and right across the mid- atlantic. fast mover, doesn't tap the gulf of mexico or atlantic, not a lot of moisture, but a dusting is possible tomorrow night. so we made saturday a yellow alert day because of that. a lot of folks are out and about saturday night. we could see slick spots. tonight the headline is wind chills, 0 to 10 above, more snow showers tomorrow, a better chance tomorrow night, a

dusting to an inch possible and a second system comes sunday, more snow showers possible late sunday and sunday evening and a third comes at us monday night. tonight, though, 12 to 22, clear to partly cloudy, very cold, winds at least calmed down west southwest 5 to 10. by morning fading sunshine, clouds on the increase and cold. you'll need a heavy coat, teens and 20s to start. by afternoon mostly cloudy, cold, late snow shower possible, winds out of the southwest at 10, better chance for snow showers saturday night. the next three days 9 weather alert yellow tomorrow, 33 late snow showers. we'll keep sunday green for now, evening snow shower 38, should not affect you getting to and from super bowl parties and night snow showers monday. so it's about 30 hours part from the sunday storm and temperatures back into the low 30s. the next seven days temps generally go up a little. we're back in the mid-40s tuesday which is average now this time of year, a little

colder on wednesday, upper 30s and then mid-40s on thursday and almost 50 on friday. actually i was looking at new data. there's a fourth system that could give us snow showers tuesday night, but we'll see about that. >> showers are good. we can handle that. >> don't want a big one? >> no. >> the pretty white stuff out the window, all good. so we can call it the super bowl or the harbaugh bowl, the big game. >> that's right. we heard from the big kahunas behind the big game, together the brothers harbaugh. >> reporter: yeah. first time that's ever happened in super bowl history. it was pretty cool to be there, a family affair day, both brothers together. we'll hear from them on who they say was their biggest influence in their career, plus i go head to head with a former raven in some

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now here's kristen berset at the wusa9 cadillac sports desk. >> reporter: welcome back. we're live in new orleans outside the susan dome. the friday before the super bowl -- superdome. the friday before the super bowl is the last time we hear from the big coaches and they usually do separate press conferences, but this time was

a little different because of the situation. for the first time ever both brothers sat and did the press conference ever. it was really a family affair. they had jackie and jack harbaugh, the parents and their 97-year-old grandfather was in the audience. we've heard a lot from the guys on how their dad jack a very successful coach influenced them in their career, but we wanted to know what they learned from the head of the household, their mother. >> nobody in the family has more competitive fire than my mother. she competes like a maniac. so i've learned no. 1, that is that and she's just always believed in us. >> no one would fight more for us than our mom no. matter what the situation was or teach us really how to have each other's back, how to be there for one another whether it was a little scrape in the neighborhood or something like that. she basically made it very clear we were to have each other's back no matter what. >> reporter: now right across the street from our hotel is

the nfl experience where you can buy all your super bowl swag. you can try your hand at throwing and kicking and racing torrey smith to see who's faster in the 40-yard dash. i thought i'm going to give it a try. i actually challenged former ravens receiver padrish padre ishmael. >> certainly there will be some challenges, no mistakes that you're talking about a team that's really good in the 49ers. they've done an awful lot as far as overcoming some obstacles of their own, but i think overall the ravens have the mental makeup and that intangible that says they can be victorious. >> reporter: we'll see what happens, of course, sunday. i'm kristen berset, back to you

in studio. >> thanks for that from the harbaughs. >> have great night, everybody. >> derek is